monthly

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The English entry for monthly is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmʌnθli/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,010 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Occurring every month.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for monthly, with forms such as "mmonthly", "mnothly", and "monhtly". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Monty", "months", "mostly", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From month + -ly (adjectival suffix), perhaps via Middle English *monethly (attested only adverbially), from Old English mōnaþlīċ (“monthly”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþlīk, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþlīkaz (“monthly”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mo… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is monthly, spelled M-O-N-T-H-L-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.